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The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…
The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. / Delivered in several sermons: by that reverend divine, Thomas Hooker, late preacher in New-England.The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. / Delivered in severall sermons: by that reverend divine, Thomas Hooker, late preacher in New-England.
London: printed by G.D. for Francis Eglesfield, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
GRACE Magnified: OR, The PRIVILED GES of those that are under Grace.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What is meant by being under the Law?
I answer, by being under the Law is meant a full subjection ⟨p. 108⟩to the Law in all its properties, and in all its qualities.
Now there are four properties of the Law: two of them are direct, and two of them are accidental, and occasioned to the Law by our sins.
Now there are four properties of the Law: two of them are direct, and two of them are accidentall, and occasioned to the Law by our sins.
There are two properties of the Law, that are direct.
The first is this, that it accepteth of nothing but perfect obedience; it pardoneth no failings, no imperfections. This is that, do this and live: do it; the Law it doth not accept of endeavours and of desires; there is nothing that standeth with the Law but a perfect doing. Hence is that same,